Guin Saga

In a single day and night of fierce fighting, the Archduchy of Mongaul had overrun its elegant neighbor, Parros. The lost priest kingdom’s surviving royalty, the young twins Rinda and Remus, hid in a forest in the forbidding wild Marches. There they are saved by a mysterious creature with a man’s body and a leopard’s head who has just emerged from a deep sleep and only remembers his name. Guin.

This series has already been lisenced in the past but that was almost a decade ago and has not continued. I know this series, assuming it would be possible to license, would still be risky just for its length. There are over 100 volumes of this. I don't expect this will get licensed in the near future but I can still hope. Also just being able to read the series that partially influenced Berserk would be really interesting.

Can the Twelve Kingdoms or Guin Saga ever be licensed?
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The former, surely. The latter...
Well...
Is there a translator who is in his/her 20s who will promise to devote the next 40-50 years of their life to translating a single work? Volunteers?

Vertical was the only possible company to take on this.
Maybe—Vintage.

You need a whole team of translators like how they do with Monogatari.
You need a huge amount of money to sustain such long series.
(20+ series is already too long of a risk—what about 130 full-length books???)

Vertical got a good critical response but seeing how they never attempt to continue it—I guess it wasn't as much of commercial success.

Like they started it as Hardcover in 2003 then stopped at 3 then came back in 2007-2008 and released the first 3 as paperback and released up to 5.
I believe they still have the license.
It's better to find Guin Saga audience here and head to Vertical.

The anime was really good and ended at a cliff hanger, it is a shame they didn't continue to translate this after volume 5. I guess the anime hype was not enough and few bought the volumes. If JNC picks the story now the hype would be even less than back in 2008 (anime release) so I doubt this would be a profitable undertaking.

Maybe this is something that could only be fan translated instead, since it has no viable financial return in the west.

Still if JNL releases this I would support it by buying all the volumes